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Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Law & Policy, Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights
Region(s): Global
… tool to hold accountable the perpetrators of gender-based violence, including against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people. The International Criminal Court … including on the basis of gender. The Rome Statute further defines gender as “the two sexes, male and female, within the context of society.” This definition of gender has been a source of confusion. On the one hand, it refers to a binary of “male and female.” On the other hand, it refers to the social context surrounding gender, implying …
Content Type(s): Publication
Region(s): Asia, China, Timor-Leste, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan
… In countries where there are laws addressing domestic violence, redress and services do not adequately encompass LGBTQ survivors. As a result, they are often unable to seek justice …
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Law & Policy
Region(s): United Nations
… UNGA High-Level Week Event “The Right to Be Me” Submitted by outrightcomms on Fri, 10/14/2022 - 11:05 … on LGBTIQ rights, on September 19 2022. This historic event brought together heads of state, high-level government officials and United Nations representatives, and civil society leaders … from the global LGBTIQ human rights movement. A momentous event for LGBTIQ rights at the UN: High-level state and UN representatives joined with civil society leaders to put LGBTIQ rights …
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Crackdown on Activism, Legal Discrimination, Law & Policy
Region(s): Europe and Central Asia, Poland
… democratic values. For example, In 2018, PiS ally President Andrzej Duda signed into law jail time for any citizen who suggests that Poland was complicit in the Holocaust, violating freedom … in opposition of PiS. Global solidarity with Poland’s LGBTIQ community is important at this time to protect the LGBTIQ community there, prevent a spread of similar ideas elsewhere, and …